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It's just ridiculous when two people are close in age. The government needs to back off.

nayrt

Some places have "close-in-age" exceptions to the laws. I think those forms of the law are quite sane and serve a purpose: protect kids from predation by adults while avoiding criminalizing consensual sex between teenagers. Repealing all statutory rape laws scares the bejeebus out of me but making it a crime for to kids the same age to have consensual sex is completely useless.

(I live in a state where it is a FELONY to have sex with anyone under 16 with no exceptions, which presumably means two 16 year-olds can have sex with each and both be convicted of felonies. Fortunately, I moved here when I was 27 so I didn't have to worry about that.)

I believe it's called the "Romeo and Juliet clause", where if a minor has sex with someone within three years of their age, it's not statutory rape. And yeah, in California there not only is *18* the age of consent and there's no Romeo and Juliet clause, but two teenagers can technically be convicted of statutory raping each other, as you mentioned.

NA

Actually, California does have a close-in-age exception, but it only reduces the crime from a felony to a misdemeanor.

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